Local Public Health Work in Mexico

Developing public health work in local health systems

Current government policy aims to create a wider ‘community of public health practice’ within local systems, working in a coherent and coordinated way in partnership with local people to reduce health inequalities. However, for this to happen policymakers and practitioners across the public sector have to reconsider boundaries, role definitions, professional identities and responsibilities. On ...

Public Health Laboratory Work

This is practically a companion volume to Parkas and Kenwood's Hygiene and Public Health. The new edition lias been considerably altered and entirely revised. It is divided into seven parts, viz., the examination of water for public health purposes, the analysis of sewage, etc., soil examination, air analysis, food examination, the examination of disinfectants and Part VIT (written by Dr. Savag...

Public Health Laboratory Work

Public Health Laboratory Work

very favourably some time ago. The present volume is intended for the public health student and will be found very useful by medical officers at home on leave, who are working for that most useful diploma, the D. P. H. The first 126 pages of this book is taken up with the chemical, microscopical and physical examination of water for public health purposes. Part II treats of the analysis of sewa...

Public Health Laboratory Work

bacteriological examination of air and water, &c., might have had more space devoted to it, considering the iiirmnse importance of modern developments in this particular branch of study. We are glad to report that this blemish has been removed, and that uu ier the hands of Dr. W. G. Savage this section has developed from the twenty pages of the second edition into nearly 140 piges of this editi...